Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 16, 2011

Statement of Benetech to the 22nd Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights at the World Intellectual Property Organization June 15, 2011, Geneva, Switzerland • Greetings from California’s Silicon Valley! Now, more than 30,000 current copyrighted books are available globally on Bookshare to thousands of users. •

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

In general, it may be considered fair use if you are reproducing a work for the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research. Copyright Office. The nature of the copyrighted work. The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Benetech has some of the juiciest and most exciting range of legal challenges I can imagine: the great majority of our legal work concerns intellectual property and human rights. We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. from the majority of IP owners we approach.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

, thanks to our Creative Commons license. Creative Commons is a charity that champions reduced restrictions on copyrighted work by creating licenses that make it clear how material can be used, changed, and shared. Creative Commons has devised a set of six free and easy-to-use copyright licenses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

To add insult to injury, the link was working! The original photo was published as "all rights reserved" because that's the flickr default and in 2005, I was pretty clueless about Creative Commons and copyright issues. of the power of the "by" license and had just turned my default to it. Isn't this ironic!!

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MARCH 24, 2011

Specifically, the surrendering of licenses to use nonprofits' content as each network sees fit. you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook ("IP License").

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Section 121 of the Copyright Act, also known as the Chafee Amendment (17 U.S.C. Dozens of publishers and authors have signed contracts with Bookshare that confirm and support its work as an authorized entity as well. Tags: copyright blind Bookshare Chafee.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2012

” He says that copyright infringement is not theft. So, given that the presentation was published under a creative commons license, I decided to remix it and remove the troublesome words. The list of skills might, at first blush, feel like a lot of extra work.

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2015

Once you create a video, it is automatically copyrighted and you have full rights to it, unless stated otherwise by a sharing service. In 2011, YouTube started letting people post their videos with Creative Commons licenses. The standard YouTube license is restrictive. CC BY is the most permissive CC license.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2015

copyright law, it is sometimes legally OK to use images you find on the web and often not. It may be useful to know that as soon as something is created, it is covered under copyright rules. Copyright Office. If an image is marked copyright-free , you can use it without permission. Copyright Fair Use Doctrine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

(If you don't know about Creative Commons, it was founded in 2001 , with a mission to increase the amount of creativity (cultural, educational, and scientific content) in “the commons” — the body of work that is available to the public for free and legal sharing, use, repurposing, and remixing. What does that mean?".

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2010

I caught Brian Rowe 's Sharing Content, Terms of Service, and Copyright Best Practices session today at this year's NTC, which was a great primer for understanding Creative Commons licensing and included information on the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) and several other topics. He also talks about his Utilikilt.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The latest session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) just concluded last week. Being silent on the big issue of circumvention would lead to a world where accessibility could be prohibited by contract.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 17, 2008

The goal is to get more people working to make this happen: getting access tech to every person in the world who needs it. We're working with assistive tech vendors to make a better player for dyslexic students, and we expect the DAISY standard to work great for these students as part of Bookshare for Education.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 20, 2010

My proposal is that the world's knowledge should work for all of humanity. In general, we have patents and copyrights and trade secrets as commercial objects because we as a society think that it helps bring the benefits of new creations to everyone. And it seems to work pretty well for stimulating creativity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2009

Earlier this week, I wrote a post called " What happens when you set your content free using Creative Commons Licensing? " I explained why I set my own work free, provided some examples, and pointed to a new tool. The First Giving Blog has a post " Riffing On Creative Commons License ". And how do you respond?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2006

I really, really, really wanted to put a smile emoticon :-) in the face but damn it isn't licensed under Creative Commons By License. Update: Here's an email response I received from Amalyah who is an IP for museums expert: Munch's works are still protected by copyright, the term of which runs not. so guess I can't.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

That said, there are wonderful organizations working with State Governments to improve literacy and reading levels across the country such as Pratham and the Akshara Foundation and much progress has been made. Also, for our Creative Commons licensed books to be remixed/repurposed by the community in whatever way they wish to.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 29, 2016

Also, do not submit content that contains elements that violate a third party's copyrights or trademark rights. Sponsor may, but is under no obligation to, post the winning stories on the Challenge web site (or to otherwise use the stories and/or creative works).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2007

American Rights At Work Flickr Stream. I've been collecting examples of the "hold a sign" meme in flickr and by way of Erin Stojan of RE-AMP I found this example from the American Rights at Work. I asked permission and also suggested they switch the license. The Flickr stream is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

It also incorporates cc licensed materials from others, including videos and flickr photos. There is so much I'm learning from educators about this, including some of the comments I culled from the Chat from yesterday's Extension webinar: In our 4H Youth Development work, copyright has been a big issue, but this step 8 opens up some things.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. I know a lot of people in the in the non-profit community think of Open-Source software as "free", as not requiring a license agreement. But the GPL very much reflects US copyright law.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

I'm very interested in the whole notion of open content and creative commons licensing in the nonprofit space. She told me, "I probably don't have to mention this to you, but you are of course free to put this under a public domain, BY or BY-sa license." I like to build things and take things apart to see how they work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2006

Mike is writing some great stuff on remix culture and creative commons license. Mike isn't doing this particular mashup for fun, he's trying to move forward some debate about methods and issues with specific licensing uses for mashups. He goes to muse about the differences in CC licensings and impact on remix culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Subsequently, I invited Gautam John who works with Pratham Books to write a guest post about their social publishing strategy where he briefly touched upon their use of Creative Commons licenses. Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses by Gautam John. We now use Creative Commons licenses everywhere!

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Care2

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Copyright: Who Really Owns Your Photos, Video and Media? Here’s why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2005

The session offered some great primers of the various technical terms and copyright laws as well as some metaphors for explaining free versus proprietary software. Lawyers seized on these distinctions to determine how protection should work. The license: ???I???m m not going to assert my copyright rights.???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

My (incorrect) perception that non-copyrighted music is crap. I thought that any non-copyrighted music might be hopelessly amateur. Are there other sources for music with flexible copyright license? The next technique that I am exploring in my screencasting/videocasting skill set is the addition of music.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

There is a very interesting PDF floating about with a powerpoint presentation by the CEO of the RIAA about the copyright/filesharing, etc. There is a new, interesting project under Creative Commons license. It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. {

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Care2

JULY 13, 2011

What feedback are you going to be providing bloggers in the organization with that will help them improve and understand what's working? Respect copyright laws by quoting and linking to the full text and only use images that you have permission to use (i.e. Recognize the good work of competitors and peer organizations.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

That basically entails figuring out how to allow staff and volunteers to get work email, documents and other data on their own mobile devices – and what to do when phones and tablets get lost or stolen. I see the grand wave of IoT and Big Data combining to generate the copyright issue for the ages. There are remedies.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2017

Do not copy the work of any other person or entity. (b) Do not reference or identify any person, entity, trademark, copyright, or property in your post unless you and/or your group have received that person's/entity's permission in writing. (c) Submission Restrictions. (a) a) In General. Limit one submission per individual.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

In contrast, the Wikimedians were focused on making cultural content digitally available online using as open a licensing structure as possible. The museums cared about participants connecting with artworks and identifying them properly, whereas the Wikimedians cared more about participants sharing images under open legal licenses.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

I decided to self-publish The Participatory Museum for four reasons: OPENNESS: I wanted the flexibility to license and distribute the book using an open structure to promote sharing. Few publishers was open to Creative Commons licensing and to giving away the content for free online. I chose the Attribution Noncommercial license.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

SH: Convio doesnt charge any extra licensing fees for Open APIs, so theyre free. For example, many of our clients work with Heller Consulting. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com FL: What kind of costs are associated with Convio Open? Heller delivers a seamless end-to-end customized connector for Convios clients.

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See3

AUGUST 9, 2007

The Red Cross has made a move in recent years that threaten the business interests of Johnson & Johnson by licensing the symbol to companies that make consumer medical products. I don’t know all of the story but it seems the company has tried to work this out without court, but the Red Cross kept moving ahead.

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